I knew going into this that I wasn't the target demographic, HOWEVER, I can get down with some YA if I vibe with it. Unfortunately, I did not vibe with this one. I love Julie Soto, but I did not love this one. This one was almost a little too YA for me because it was giving Pretty Little Liars/Gossip Girl type drama and characters and not in a good way. I found myself not caring about the characters nor the issues they were facing.

I also found myself exceptionally bored throughout which is a recipe for disaster in a thriller. I just did not care, but I forced myself to persevere because I had seen reviews about a shocking ending. While I wasn't shocked, I was a bit surprised. However, that didn't change the fact that I didn't have a great time with this one.

One final gripe and this one is a personal one. I really really dislike when a book uses so many pop-culture references in a book. That's just a personal pet-peeve that I don't like because I feel it dates the book badly.

One extra star because the writing was great, as per usual with Julie Soto.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an early copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I loved this book. Julie Soto did an amazing job folding so many complexities together into a solid plot that is both timely and relatable. The complicated friend group at the center of The Thrashers was largely the force that propelled me through the narrative. I couldn’t get enough of the drama! Add in a dash of speculative and you have this gem of a novel.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for an early copy of this book! Opinions are my own.

This read was so good, at first it gave me heathers vibes! I did enjoy the read, but i was looking for a little drama and angsty. Overall i still want to be apart of the thrasher

The Thrashers has creeped itself to the top of my 2025 favorites list!

I am so glad this book landed in my hands. I couldn’t put the dang thing down. My kindle slept in bed next to me; was my last thought before bed and the first thing I grabbed for!

In true transparency…I was planning on skipping this book. Most YA books are not appealing to me. When I was offered an arc, I knew if skyline writes it, it’s going yo be amazing.

- Such a good mix of suspense/mystery and a heaping sprinkle of paranormal elements.

- The characters: perfect! Love them, hated them, some I rooted for and some I wanted to see thrashed!

While the ending felt a bit faster paced than the majority of the book, it didn’t feel like it was rushed or missed anything.

I’m convinced Julie could write an instruction manual and I’d give it 5 stars!

Thank you NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press and Miss Julie Soto for the arc!

Okay WOW, this book took me by surprise in the best way. A high school friend group is being charge with bullying and driving a peer to end her life. It reminded me strongly of Pretty Little Liars. It had the perfect combination of suspense and mystery while also bringing in paranormal elements. The high school feelings of insecurity and friend group dynamics felt so true to what I remember high school being like. I loved this book so much and I will be recommending it to everyone when it comes out on April 30th!

Thank you NetGalley and Julie Soto for allowing me to read this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Uhmmm, that epilogue whattt!!

First, I would like to thank NetGalley and Wednesday Books for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I fell in love with Julie Soto’s writing through her fanfics and enjoy mixing in thrillers here and there so I was excited to give this one a read. I read this is a day I couldn’t put it down. I needed to know what was going to happen and was so invested in the story that kept me guessing the entire way.

This story follows a group of high school friends who are accused of being involved in a fellow students suicide. It explores high school relationships and all the heavy feelings that high school students feel about fitting in and wanting to be included, while adding to that a touch of the paranormal. It pulled me right back into all the feelings of uncertainty that come with being that age and trying to figure out where you fit in. This book was engaging and kept my interest throughout.

I SCREAMED at the epilogue. I need answers.

thank you to netgalley for the arc of this one!

this was a really fun read, it's been ages since i last read a YA novel and i was pleasantly surprised by this one! the concept is one that i always enjoy - a thriller centered around a clique of rich kids basically - but i actually really liked how the mystery was handled in this, for while it was at times predictable (as YA thrillers usually are) that didn't take away from the readability at all.

another pleasant surprise was the supernatural elements, because i went into this fully blind and had no idea that it would lean supernatural at all. there have been other books where i went in blind and wound up HATING when things turned supernatural (cough the house across the lake cough) but it was the perfect amount of creepy in this one that i was actually creeped out reading this at night!

definitely recommend this one if you enjoy the premise, because i had a great time!

This was my first book that wasn't a spicy romance novel and let me tell you - IT DID NOT DISAPPOINT. I read the book in about 2.5 days (would've been shorter if I didn't have to adult and go to work) but I couldn't put it down. I read it in my ubers to and from work, on my lunch break, on the hour that was way past my bed time. When I wasn't reading The Thrashers, it was all I could think about until I finished it and even now, having finished it, I'll probably think about it for quite some time. To say I was HOOKED is the understatement of the century. I hated, I loved, I hated and I fell back in love with the characters. I was thoroughly haunted for a good portion of this novel in the best way possible. Julie Soto is a GOD TIER writer. I was introduced to her from her fanfics but cannot wait to start reading her other works! And Julie, if you're reading this - please PLEASE tell me there's a part 2 to this book because I cannot with that cliffhanger.

Woww.
I was not expecting to be as obsessed with this book as I was. I also wasn't expecting all the twists and turns this book took me thru. I was holding on tight wanting to be part of the Thrashers clique myself trying to solve what had actually happened to Emily.
Usually I'm not a fan of an unexpected paranormal plot but this was done right! Everything about it was perfect.
I could not put this book down and the ending??? Flabbergasted.




Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for allowing me to read this ARC.

first, I wanna thank the publisher for the e-ARC of this amazing book!!!

okay, I’ll just say six words: SPECTACULAR GIVE ME FOURTEEN OF ‘EM 😫🤌🏼

The Thrashers is a mystery YA full of tense scenes and intriguing characters, you never know what will happen next and what twist will the story take.

I really enjoyed all the drama involved and felt the uncertainty that all the protagonists suffered.

highly recommend it!

I would like to say thank you to the author, publisher and Netgalley for allowing me the privilege of being allowed to read this book!

This book was incredible! Well this book is geared as a ya novel, this would honestly fit in for that age bracket and above. It has honestly been a very very long time since I have read a great thriller and this takes the cake! I also really glad (I get directed at ya) that it wasnt some graphic and gory thing which most thrillers seem to thrive on making them more horror than thriller, where this was a true thriller through and through!

The characters were amazing and completely enjoyable, the author brings you in for the ride and you feel like you're right there with them all and I loved every minute it of it! That ending was spectacular, I honestly have no idea if this is intended to be a standalone or not, but I really hope it isn't! I need a sequel maybe a split pov with our main character and the character sitting through it all at the end of this book set afterwards. I would fall all over that! Well the ending completely utterly works, I'm not ready to leave this world and those two behind, it's not a cliffhanger but I feel like I'm hanging there and I need more! I haven't felt like this in a long time about a book of this genre!

This also one hundred percent needs to be a tv series, I would binge watch this over and over again. No this is not at all pretty little liars or 13 reasons why, I can see where you could make those references. But this is soo much more! I've read both that series and that book and they completely fall short even their show versions of what a masterpiece this book is! I can't wait until it releases, I could read this book over and over again and never get bored!

Thank you so very much from the bottom of my heart again! Ps. Ms. Soto if I was to get lucky enough for you to ever see this review please please please make a sequel novel if you can I need more and please find a way to get this into someone's hands to turn it into a tv series! I love it!

This was such a ridiculously addictive YA Thriller. I'm a sucker for high-school drama and this was like Pretty Little Liars and Ghost Whisperer had a baby, and I am here for it! That Epilogue though!!!

I absolutely INHALED this book! It was delicious. Loved the paranormal activity mixed with the lies and secrets of the group of HS kids trying to stay out of juvie.

The end had me staring at the wall like WTF, because I had to think back on so many events and wonder what was real or not!!

Great read, loved every minute of it!!

I’m a huge fan of YA thrillers, and this one was no exception. Everyone in town is obsessed with Zack Thrasher and his friends, who are known as the Thrashers. Emily Mills, a new girl, fell into that obsession. Tragically, she ends up dead, and everyone is looking at the Thrashers.
I was a bit uncertain about the direction the story would take and whether certain events were real or just figments of the characters’ imaginations. However, by the end, all those questions were answered. It wasn’t exactly a cliffhanger, but it left me wanting more.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for access to this eARC. WHAT IS THIS BOOK. Julie Soto, I was fully invested in all the romance, and now I'm also here for your YA thriller. That ending...

I am (many) years past high school, but Julie has written such a convincing portrayal and description of these characters that you are fully back in it. Jodi is the perfect nuanced, uncertain, hypocritical, confused high schooler. The twists and turns in this magically crafted puzzle were phenomenal. I was many times convinced I'd known what had happened (or was going to happen), and nope. All the way through the epilogue.

If any type of thriller has ever interested you, this one is a must. Easy 5 stars.

I’m not usually a YA reader, but I’ve been following Julie’s publishing journey, and I remembered her talking about this idea many years ago. I really enjoyed the suspense and paranormal aspects of the book. I could feel all the teenage angst and the desperation to fit in. The Thrashers all seemed to be keeping secrets from each other and dealing with their own inner demons. It felt genuine and unique.

Overall, I could not put it down and kept turning the page to see what happened next. The end made me think about a few things and wish for another chapter or a sequel.

First, I would like to say WOW!!!! This book... oh this book... once it comes out, I will buy it as a trophy book because wow.

Right off the Prologue, this book sucks you in. The characters are so well thought of. You can feel what they feel, you can see them alive in your head.

This book kept me guessing throughout the entirety of it. The plot was well thought out and well paced. The teenage angst is alive and well in this book.

Some particular points of this book made me say "awweee finally" but now I hope there is a second of some sort because I nees two of the characters to BE TOGETHER!!!!

This book is emotional, powerful and really makes you think about some of your own experiences and how they had consequences. It reminds you that you are not alone and you should never take anyone for granted.

This was a masterpiece!! An absolute masterpiece!! I am so happy I was chosen to read the ARC, it definitely left an impression!!

Okay this book actually rocked🙈 I didn’t really know what to expect other than Pretty Little Liars meets Veronica Mars but this was such a fun read and I genuinely couldn’t put it down!! Was a bit more paranormal thriller-y than I was expecting but I do love a good thriller vibe! I also feel like a movie adaptation for this book would be right up my alley - it is teenage, creepy mystery, sprinkle of romance perfection

Any character named Julian I am immediately going to like I can’t help myself (this Julian did not disappoint)

And the epilogue💀 I don’t know if there is supposed to be a sequel for this book but I for real hope there is - feeling like we’ve got unfinished business

Thank you to NetGalley and Wednesday Books for the Advanced Digital Copy!!!

This book does an excellent job of ensuring you hate every character. The resolution felt pretty unsatisfying because there is lack of sympathy for the dead girl. She, just like the others, was a bad person. The “clique” at the center of this story lacks the development that makes this story more believable. The epilogue felt unnecessary and the sprinkling of fantasy in this didn’t quite work for me.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

When I was younger I would eat up a book about a rich clique of teens and mystery. But now? I approach it with caution and want authors to add some flare to the staleness that has absorbed the genre. The Thrashers is a good read mixing mysticism with the reality of bullying.

The book is also deeply unsettling, the creep levels are off the charts, it’s sinister and eerie. And, I absolutely loved it. Julie Soto does a lot within the mystery genre in this book but and she does it well. This is a twisted rollercoaster that just keeps on winding and weaving. Plus the epilogue?! We need to revisit that in the future (fingers crossed). Giving this 4.5 Stars because there were certain elements that required a stronger payoff.

Thank you so much St. Martin's Press & Wednesday Books for the ARC!